María Jesús Herrera

Associate

mjherrera@carey.cl
+56 2 2928 2203



Her practice is mainly focused on civil, commercial and environmental litigation and arbitration before ordinary and special courts.


REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • Izarra, a drinking water and sewage services company, on a lawsuit against one of its users in order to judicially force the execution of a contract to enforce the payment of a refundable financial contribution.
  • Motorola Mobility on its successful defense against a claim for contractual liability deducted by a service provider.
  • An important retail company on its successful defense in a case of unfair competition before ordinary courts.
  • Domestic and foreign companies on contractual matters and tort claims before ordinary courts and arbitrators.

ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • Teaching Assistant of Civil Law, Universidad de Chile (since 2015).
  • Intern, Jurisprudence Database Modernization Project Through Artificial Intelligence, Chilean Supreme Court (2020-2021).
  • Teaching Assistant of Civil Law, Universidad Diego Portales (2018-2021).
  • Academic Intern, Linkage Program, Yale Law School, USA (2017).
  • Intern, Summer Program, Carey (2016).
  • Teaching Assistant of Torts, Universidad de Chile (2016).
  • Member of the Chilean Bar Association.

SEMINARS

  • Coordinator, IV Student Congress on Civil Law, Universidad de Chile (2015).
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, Civil Law Seminar "The Difference between Contracts and Fiduciary Relations", Universidad de Chile (2014).
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, III Student Congress on Civil Law, Universidad de Chile (2013).

EDUCATION

  • Law, Universidad de Chile (Summa Cum Laude).
  • Degree in National and International Commercial Arbitration, Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce and Universidad de Chile (best average of her generation).

ADMISSIONS

  • Chile (2021).

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish.
  • English.

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